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As a native French speaker, I'm quite amused that several of these words are either French or have a basis in French. Seems that English has appropriated many w
by CountHackulus 16y ago
As a native French speaker, I'm quite amused that several of these words are either French or have a basis in French. Seems that English has appropriated many words from other languages.
- gabrielroth 16y agoSome of them ('Crèches,' for example) are from French, but perhaps you're thinking of others (e.g. 'nascent') that come to both English and French from Latin.
- jamesbritt 16y ago"Seems that English has appropriated many words from other languages." Metric ass-loads. It's the best feature of the language: Shameless theft when a good word comes along.
- zbyszek 16y agoIt has. French was the language of the aristocracy in England for several centuries after the 1066 Norman conquest, giving rise to a sort of linguistic duality of French and Anglo-Saxon words in English mirroring the social divide. Thus Saxon-derived words tend to be more down-to-earth than their more elevated French-derived equivalents.